Associate, Strategic Projects

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Company Overview

Rex is a privately held ecosystem of entrepreneurial ventures led by Peter Rex, spanning real estate private equity, technology, insurance, and AI. We build businesses and investment platforms that generate both exceptional financial returns and meaningful societal impact. At the core of our strategy is investor engagement: attracting aligned capital partners who share our long-term vision. We are building the most compelling investor-facing ecosystem in the private markets. The role offers exposure to a uniquely diverse platform; combining institutional-quality real estate and high-growth tech ventures, all aligned under a singular mission-driven vision.

About Us

Our mission is to catalyze human flourishing through stewardship, serving people in all nations. We seek a transcendent impact, second to none, crossing geographies and making a permanent mark on history. We aim to uplift investors, foster flourishing families, create enduring trust, and contribute to a more beautiful world through our investments, products and services, and new ventures. Our investments are primarily in real estate, with additional allocations to tech, energy, and alternatives, employing a downside-protected, long-term approach to investing. We are grounded in timeless morals and seek to preserve and grow both investor capital and our own. We serve a diverse ecosystem that includes:

• Multifamily apartment management with 20,000+ apartments
• Hotel and office buildings
• Tech ventures
• Insurance companies

Our businesses, with over 500 employees, are primarily throughout Texas and Florida, but we aim to expand globally with our products and services, impacting people in all countries.

Mindset

Fanatical Investor Focus: Serve our investors by preserving their wealth first and foremost and secondarily seeking to maximize their return on equity while fostering human progress through stewardship of the assets and companies. Ecosystem Alignment: Execute in a spirit of partnership across all components of the Rex ecosystem, including multifamily and other real estate assets as well as tech companies. Missionary Zeal: Care about investor stewardship and advancing the vision of catalyzing human flourishing.

The Mission of This Role

We are seeking an Associate of Strategic Projects who is exceptional at executing hands-on complex, cross-functional initiatives. This role is designed for an individual earlier in their career who is top echelonintellectually sharp, highly adaptable, and capable of mastering diverse challenges across real estate, technology, and private equity. In this role, you will serve as a force multiplier within the Rex ecosystem: executing high-stakes projects, supporting leadership priorities, and ensuring seamless coordination across ventures. You'll be asked to bring speed, rigor, and creativity to bear on projects that shape the trajectory of the company.

What You'll Do

• Execute High-Impact Projects: Support initiatives across real estate, tech, private equity, and insurance ventures, driving tasks to completion with precision and accountability.
• Apply Analytical Problem-Solving: Research, analyze, and synthesize data into actionable insights that inform executive decision-making.
• Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate across diverse teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment, clarity, and progress on complex projects.
• Adapt & Learn Quickly: Jump into unfamiliar subject areas, mastering new skills and concepts at speed.
• Support Leadership Priorities: Work directly with senior leaders on strategic initiatives, providing leverage through disciplined execution.
• Deliver with Excellence: Ensure every deliverablewhether a model, report, or project milestonemeets institutional-quality standards.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 3-7 years of professional experience in consulting, finance, operations, or project-based roles; top-tier new graduates will also be considered.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and deliver projects with precision under tight deadlines.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills; highly proficient with Excel, PowerPoint, and research tools.
• Intellectual curiosity and adaptability; thrives on learning new domains quickly and deeply.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information clearly and concisely.
• Deep alignment with Rex's mission and values; motivated by impact and stewardship.
• Ambitious, resourceful, and eager to operate at ludicrous speed in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment.

Rex Ecosystem-Wide Mission

Catalyze Human Flourishing through our products/services and to elevate/further humanity in all our business dealings.

Rex Values / Rex Culture

• Customer Fanatic. We fanatically focus on customers, seeking to ever-deliver more value, and inventing/innovating on their behalf.
• Product/Service Passion. Our business thrives or dies by products/services.
• Ludicrous speed. Our default pace is extremely fast. Time is precious, life is short; and moving fast is more fun and effective.
• FAWOMO. We will find a way, or make one.
• Loves going to war: prefers wartime to peacetime, always hungry to move forward, do more, and push growth.
• Chutzpah. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Fortune favors the bold. Duc in altum.
• Fun. We should only do work, over the long run, that's fun; and work with fun people. Jokes and humor welcomed; PC stuff and uptight behavior prohibited.
• Never-lose-money approach. Protects the downside, using careful analysis before deploying significant resources, and ensuring cash is plentiful; never risking what others have and need for what they don't have and don't need.
• Other-centered. Idealist, desperate more than anything to leave an impact with their life by helping other people, seeing money as a means to serve.
• Creative cost cutting constantly. There's always a smarter way, always room to cut, always ways to do more with less a cost advantage is a competitive edge.
• Fewer, more capable. Bias to as lean of a team as possible, with the highest competency reducing communication and coordination, creating more effectiveness.
• Underdogs. What we've done is nothing compared to what we're going to achieve now. We're fighting to be the best, clawing and biting up and forward, aiming to be the champs, be #1. Scrappy AF no matter how much we accomplish. We've never 'arrived' in our minds. We're the underdogs always.
• Other attributes valued. Pointblank forthrightness in conversation with teammates, brutally facing problems; velvet glove with iron fist in human dealings; shrewd as a serpent innocent as a dove; hardcore work hustle; invictus mentality; swagger with humility; quiet professionalism; thrifty and not materialistic; loves who they work with, loves what they do, and loves who we serve.

Compensation & Benefits

$50,000 - $80,000

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company matching
• Professional development opportunities to advance personal and professional growth
• Fully remote work flexibility, with travel required for investor meetings and strategic engagements

Applicants must pass a background and reference check prior to their first day to confirm employment eligibility. For finance-focused positions, a credit check may also be required. We are open to U.S. citizens worldwide ; this role has a preference for candidates based in Central Texas. Ready to apply? Powered by First name * Last name * Email * LinkedIn URL Phone number * Location * Resume * Click to upload or drag and drop here Are you authorized to work in the United States of America? * Are you willing to undergo a background check, in accordance with local law/regulations? * How are you aligned with the Rex ecosystem-wide mission? * Rex Mission: Catalyze Human Flourishing. Seeking to empower customers through our products and services & to elevate/further humanity in all our business dealings. Why do the Rex values listed above appeal? * How do you think your experience aligns with this role? * By applying you agree to Gem's terms and privacy policy . Save your info to apply to other roles faster & help employers reach you. Req ID: R40